MEN OF SUCH OPINION by OCEAN COLOUR SCENE
B-side to You’ve Got It Bad (Limited Edition Single)
Chords used:
G5: 355xxx G: 355433 Eb9: x65666
Bb5: 688xxx Bb: 688766
A5: 577xxx A: 577655
Ab5: 466xxx Ab: 466544
F5: 133xxx F: 133211
Gb5: 244xxx Gb: 244322
Db5: x466xx Db: x4666x
Eb5: x688xx Eb: x6888x
G5
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—————|—| Play this repeatedly
—————|—| during the intro and
———5——|—| first verse.
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G5
Summer death, slow step
Walk behind the mother of the thirteen year old brown-eyed boy
Attitudes, attitudes
Sloganized by middle boots
The men who slogged the brown-eyed boy
Bb5 A5 Ab5 G5
And it’s the end of everything that you’ve been told about
F5
Decency, honesty
Ab5 G5 Gb5 F5 Eb5
And it’s the end of holding back and breaking bones and building bombs
Db5 Ab5 Eb5
And hanging witch-hunts conducted by men of such opinion
G5
Repeat first verse
Bb A Ab G F
And it’s the end of building roads to load the dead to someone else’s field
Ab G Gb F Eb
And it’s the end of falling back on breaking backs and aching handshakes
Db Ab Eb
And playing fields conducted by men of such opinion
Bb Db
But the fathers crossed you boys
Ab
I fire so heaven knows not only righteous folk
B F#
But righteous taste hold the keys to sitting grace
E B F#
To conduct and to proclaim decisions made of such opinions
G
(guitar solo)
Bb A Ab
And it’s the time of summer days
G F
When children sing about the killing fields
Ab G Gb F
Winter melts the snow and knees will crack on rock
Eb
And the iron on earth beneath the dearth bequeathed
Db Gb Eb9
Penchant by men of such opinion
